Report: Stubbs and Gregorius for Choo and Donald “All but complete” (Fay) [update]

Danny Knobler at CBS Sports broke the news about an hour ago that the Reds are in the advanced stages of trade discussions with Cleveland. The Reds would trade Drew Stubbs and DiDi Gregorius for Shin Soo Choo. The report says the Reds would play Choo in centerfield, where he hasn’t played much recently.

The Reds would use Choo in center field even though he hasn’t played there for the Indians since 2009 and has played just ten MLB games at the position in total. The Reds are banking on the 30-year-old’s offensive production being able to make up for whatever they might lose defensively. The veteran owns a .289/.381/.465 slash line across eight major league seasons.

The rumor was confirmed a few minutes ago by Jon Paul Morosi at Fox Sports.

Update: Possible three-team deal with Arizona. Gregorius to the Diamondbacks. Per Paul Hoynes of the CPD:

3 team dealing cooking among #Indians, Reds, Arizona. Shin-Soo Choo headed to Cincy. Asdrubal Cabrera not involved as of right now.

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@rfay00: Really good question. I think there’s a chance Leake gets considered for the pen, too. Maybe a trade. Lots of teams look for bullpen help during spring training. Maybe we wait and make sure everyone is healthy. See Madson, Massett and Bray (circa March 2012).

@rfay00: I thought Redmond was trade bait back when I expected the Reds to trade Leake or Bailey for a leadoff hitter. Well, that’s not happening. I think Redmond is now even more likely than ever to be traded.

He was acquired for Paul Janish and hopefully they can trade up for a better utility infielder for the bench. It seems unlikely that they’d turn to him with so many better pitchers.

I think this trade means that they are pretty high on Brodie at SS.He seems to read like Cozart’s bio 3 years ago

I think it just means that they’re still high on Cozart and winning in 2013. I expects it moves Brodie Green up the depth chart like Neftali Soto did after Yonder Alonso was traded. Somebody gets promoted to the ‘_______ of the future’ title by default when a blocked guy gets traded. I doubt many Reds fans have ever heard of Brodie or that this means anything for his future.

Maybe Tanner Rahier has the front office excited? He’s now the best shortstop prospect in the system. And he’s projected to move off either to third if his power develops or to second if he’s just going to be a scrappy player.

Maybe Tanner Rahier has the front office excited? He’s now the best shortstop prospect in the system. And he’s projected to move off either to third if his power develops or to second if he’s just going to be a scrappy player.

It seems to me that maybe the front office is high on Cozart. I don’t think this team is worried about 2016.